Kevin Vickers

• Higgs government to table 2021-2022 New Brunswick budget Tuesday

  This years budget arrives in completely different context then the one tabled just over a year ago, before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the province.

  Politics

  Mar 15, 2021
  
• N.B. Liberal party begins process of ‘rejuvenating’ with election of new executive

  The party is looking at how to expand support in the southern part of the province and what the process for selecting a new leader will be.

  Politics

  Jan 25, 2021
  
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• New Brunswick Liberals choose new executive at virtual biennial meeting

  Former federal member of parliament and Moncton, N.B., mayor Brian Murphy was elected the new party president as 1,100 members took part in a virtual biennial meeting.

  Canada

  Jan 24, 2021
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• COMMENTARY: For Canada’s Parliament Hill hero, the U.S. Capitol attack triggered memories

  The people involved in the Oct. 22, 2014, attack on Parliament Hill still carry emotional scars, Kevin Vickers tells Mike Smyth.

  Politics

  Jan 12, 2021
• Storming of capital an ‘attack on democracy’: Parliament Hill shooting hero

  Kevin Vickers, the former Canadian sergeant-at-arms who stopped a gunman in a firefight on Parliament Hill in 2014, said the U.S. Capitol riot was an 'attack on their democracy.'

  Canada

  Jan 7, 2021
• New Brunswick Liberals choose Roger Melanson as interim leader of Opposition

  The interim Opposition leader has worked in previous Liberal cabinets, holding the portfolios of finance, transport, Aboriginal affairs and energy.

  Politics

  Sep 28, 2020
• Elections New Brunswick refers complaint to Saint John police

  Details on the incident are limited and agencies are not offering comment.

  Crime

  Sep 16, 2020
• ‘He can do what he wants’: Higgs, New Brunswick Tories are in control after snap election

  "Because of this antiquated first-past-the-post system, we reward those who get less than 40 per cent of the vote with a majority... It's absurd."

  Politics

  Sep 15, 2020
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• New Brunswick Liberal loss shows province’s deepening linguistic divide

  The Acadian Society of New Brunswick worries the province’s new majority PC government could deepen the language divide.

  Politics

  Sep 15, 2020
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• Mount Allison Students’ Union president says students were turned away at polls

  'Students were showing up with their leases and IDs who are New Brunswickers and were still being told that they couldn't vote.'

  Politics

  Sep 15, 2020